Speaking of Gonzales, do you see him as the next nominee? I have been predicting Gonzales' section since Roberts was nominated. If it's not Gonzles now, it will surely be for the third opening, if there is a third opening.
I honestly don't know. I see two primary camps in that prediction department.
One camp predicts that Gonzales will be a pick, nominally because the pick will energize Hispanic voters, and perhaps because Bush rewards loyalty (another crony pick), or because Bush wants to stick a needle in the eye of the uber-right-wing conservatives who objected to the Miers nomination, since he knows these same people object to Gonzales on the frounds that GOnzales has demonstrated judicial activism (see TX parental notification cases).
The other camp predicts that Bush will avoid a Gonzales pick, for the same reasons noted above. That he is not vindictive, and that he intends to honor his campaing promise to nominate strict constructionists, where "strict constructionist" can be fleshed out with the benchmark examples of Thomas and Scalia.